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my first thought as well.

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great stuff available!

that's a very good idea mjzee - and simple! i have a stand alone tascam cd burner that is super fine. my first conversion using my usb turntable was cool, and pretty easy, but i wasn't able to adjust the input level - it seemed to be "set." and the level turned out to be pretty low compared to everything else in my ipod. not good. i assume/hope being able to control the level on my tascam would solve that problem. and while it may seem like an extra step to have to rip to cd first - and then to itunes - the cd burning is really just replacing the "burn" to audacity before it goes into itunes from there. the first step doesn't take any more time - it just takes place outside of the computer... i'm pretty sure the one i got has cartridges/stylus that can be replaced. seems pretty good so far. i'll have to check and make sure...

yeah, i hear you. but space isn't my issue. so the wav file being bigger (less compression, right?) is actually a plus. my issue is that i read somewhere that wav files were not good for the lifetime of the ipod battery. i just bought my 1st ipod - a used 2008 classic/video. seems to be working fine and i assume i should be able to get at least 1-2 years out of it. it is true that when the battery dies on your ipod, that's it. pre-planned obsolescence, right? so i wanna have it last and if wav files hurt that, i'd rather stick w/ other formats. GB space - no problem. battery life - issue. not trying to hijack my own thread the main thing is that it seems that importing/converting vinyl to mp3/wav on your desktop is a snap. if i experiment w/ the "edit" functions on my vinyl wav files in the audacity program i'll post about it.

yes. i just finished my 1st little converting session and it worked. took a little tweeking and a relatively short learning curve. audacity won't allow you to export as mp3 directly from the program onto your desktop without downloading some other program (believe it or not it's called LAME). but it allowed me to export as WAV and then i just clicked and dragged those from my desktop into my itunes program. those are less compressed anyway, right? so it's all good. already synced it up and it seems to be fine. i heard that WAV format is possibly harder for ipods to deal with and may be not good for their battery? anyone know anything about that? generally very happy to have this capability. there are "editing" features in the audacity program as well. could get interesting...

as i type i'm making my first conversion of an LP to mp3 format w/ my audio-technica AT-LP60-USB turntable. won't know how (if...) it worked for another hour probably. the turntable came w/ a free Audacity program (an essentially free and basic home recording software program). if i did it right (doubt it ) it's pretty easy to set up. i seem to have levels and it's coming through my computer speakers so that's good. anyone have one of these usb turntables? same model as mine? interested to hear advice, frustrations, etc... if it's half as easy as it seems to be so far, i'll be putting a good amount of vinyl into my ipod. gee... that's a wierd phrase: put vinyl into ipod it is what it is.

i haven't heard anything. but anything w/ him playing is always welcome. nope: go see my two lonely posts in the "Live From Small's" thread in the Jazz Radio & Podcasts section (they're the last two posts in the thread) posted before this thread was started

bump. much to choose from

giant/interesting subject menace. it reminds me of the first part of a 'book' review i did back in june of 2009: Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock co-founded No Depression magazine back in 1995. Alden spoke in 2008 on NPR about long form music writing not translating so well to the internet. He wondered whether readers would bother to turn the 'virtual page.' "The problem I have with the Web is it doesn't seem like a good home for a 10,000 word story on Little Miss Cornshucks... I don't think the reading experience works," he said. "And I don't know where that story gets told if magazines like ours can't survive." Whether or not long form writing 'works' on the Web is a debate that won't have any decisive closure any time soon. But at the very least, most can acknowledge that reading a 10,000 word piece on the Web at your desktop is a different experience than reading the same piece sitting on a park bench holding a magazine or book. Or holding a 'bookazine' (whatever that is). Well, "whatever that is" is what Alden and Blackstock call the latest incarnation of No Depression. Their old magazine got swallowed up by our currently print-hostile era. In this modern McWorld where the average music listener's attention span is about as long as their most recently downloaded ringtone, the average reader's attention span may be following suit. Why read/write 5,000 words when you can read/write 500? Somehow, the idea of "faster/more" has become almost universally equated with "better" without any consideration beyond theaspects of speed and volume. It seems an offshoot of (dare I say it?) a Capitalist mentality: more more more. Always be growing and consuming. If you don't make more this year than you did last year, you're a failure. Profit in volume. Don't give me one relatively in depth 1,000 word article when I can sell ten 100 word blips for more profit. Don't give me one 100 word blip when I can sell ten 10 word sentences. We have fast food, faster computers, the iPhone has everything 'now,' even faster wars (or so the puppet masters would have us believe: "Mission Accomplished"). And you see it on the nightly network McNews in the shrinking length of their stories. An "In Depth" report from CBS lasts all of a couple minutes and their following coverage of the previous day's annual G8 summit may last 30 seconds. It's information... kind of. But it's devoid of any real context. We are confusing knowing "of" something with really knowing "about" anything. Brooks Hatlen got it right when he left Shawshank prison observing, "I can't believe how fast things move on the outside... The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry." It's no coincidence that Brooks was the prison librarian. full(er) review here i'm going to bed 'cuz it's late and i'm tired. just wanted to put this up to start. i'll be checking in again. good stuff menace...

again: mark turner on live video stream from small's right now...

Adbusters: Journal Of The Mental Environment (Zine Home) cultural commentary magazine w/ articles and very interesting artwork. certainly not for everyone. sample cover image: the "adbusters flag":

does he use the word repeatedly w/ the same spelling? if so, knowing the context of its usage is an obvious necessity to figure out/guess at his reasoning. any chance of putting up a couple examples of his contexts msb59? i suppose it's possible that it's a misspelling, but i'd highly doubt it could be one of those innane intentional misspellings (kool, phat, etc etc etc...) to show one's "originality." i can't imagine Braxton would do anything like that. but, to be honest, while i have nothing but respect for the man and his music, his verbal explanations of countless things (including his music) often rub me the wrong way. admittedly this is mostly based on my reading of Forces In Motion and very limited exposure to the TAW (i had a rather extensive clip saved onto my desktop a while back). for me, he is in the same category as ornette in this respect: undeniably brilliant musician, but frustratingly obfuscatory verbally - seemingly to the point of intent. i can dig a nice koan as much as the next frustrated american and i have nothing against coming up w/ an occasional new word if it helps to get your point across. but it seems to me that with these two master musicians, their use of language tends toward shrouding instead of illumination. it can certainly be awesome to be original and it's perfectly cool to be eccentric, esoteric, to follow your own path, etc etc etc... but imo sometimes an artist's simple inability to express oneself verbally can be interpreted as "artistic" or "so deep we can't fathom its meaning" by those who wish to see them as nothing but a brilliant genius in all contexts. i trust in their music 1st

great leeway just today i added two little sections at the bottom of the list of cds in the OP: books and dvds i've decided to throw into the mix. check 'em out!

That's not right. Blade's Fellowship band released Season Of Changes a couple years ago. personally i think it's not as good as the band's previous two recordings but it's still an excellent record. in my mind the previous two are both classics and it's difficult to keep it at a level that high for too long in terms of recordings. it's another story live: i have no doubt that they are spectacular to see every night they play. i don't have Mama Rose yet but i've heard it's more in the singer/songwriter vein and will eventually get my hands on it.

very interesting. like someone said above i also don't see how it will be enforcable. there's so many ways around it. more than anything else though, the phony reviews that make me pissed off are the MOVIE reviews you see the pull quotes from for the most obviously shitty films: "Best feel good movie of he year!," says jo blo from the globglob post in east buckfuck minnesota. "Bring the whole family!," writes evalyn lyinass on channel 13 11pm news nowheresville. just nonsense...

bought this vinyl a few weeks ago and am just starting to listen: "Duran" has a killer milesian funk/rock groove goin' on (Cobham!) and McLaughlin is killin' in somewhat of a Hendrix mode. and i've never heard the lead-off track "Song Of Our Country." it's a gil evans tune in orchestral fashion w/ miles like "sketches." will be listening to that later this evening...

PM sent Leeway...

bump. OP is up to date...

cannonball goes 1st on 'All Blues' and coltrane goes 1st on 'Flamenco Sketches.'

'nother good vinyl find today at the store: haven't listened to this in quite some time. still sounds great...

hilarious! thanks for that GA. i needed a good laugh. "Who makes a station with proto-punk and late-'90s jam bands?" said Davis, explaining how an effort to split the difference by playing the MC5 followed by the String Cheese Incident had failed disastrously.

yep. and CJ - i agree on "The Cloister." it's a terrific piece of music, one of my favorite compositons of his, and i think one of his best. i wrote this about it when i reviewed it back in 2005: "...the ending sections of this opening track exemplify what’s so intriguing about many of these compositions. Listening to this tune is like opening a set of Chinese boxes in reverse. Where many writers would be satisfied w/ the large amount of material already covered in this piece, Rosenwinkel keeps writing because it was there to be discovered." [he spoke earlier in the review about feeling like an 'archeologist' when it came to composition - 'discovery'] don't know if you guys checked this out yet, but from the page i linked to in the OP: Ohad Talmor, a saxophonist and gifted composer in his own right, was approached by OJM to arrange two of Rosenwinkel’s pieces, “The Cloister” (from Deep Song) and “Path of the Heart” (from The Next Step). “Ohad was a special case,” says Rosenwinkel, “because he did something completely radical. We met before the session and I told him, ‘Go ahead, make new sections, do whatever you want.’ And he ran with it. His arrangements are like a cubist reorganization of my songs, using what I wrote as RAM. He put it in a bag, shook it up, and saw where it came out.” we will see...

found this at my neighborhood vinyl store while doing laundry today: $5, very good condition. i love, love, love this record. i assume this is obscure to most here, but me and my friends listened to this one a lot when we were at college and it's got sentimental value beyond compare (me and a buddy played the title track as the processional for a mutual college friend's wedding). plus, there's a lot of beautiful piano playing on it!!! i looked for it about a year back at amazon and found that it hadn't been issued at all on cd, so when i saw it today on vinyl i snapped it up. it sounds great.